Location: Prague, CZ

About the role

As a Big Data Engineer you will work alongside experienced and junior engineers on development of mission critical projects and applications using the most modern Big Data technology stack. This role has a high potential for further career progress in the direction of technical leadership team-wide and/or big data architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implementation of generic tools and platforms for some of the following:
    • enabling simple data ingestion and consumption of corporate data lake
    • various streaming use cases and products
    • machine learning applications and pipelines
  • Contribute to our projects, which can be found on GitHub
    • we also contribute to others, like Apache Spark
  • Research of new technologies and investigation of their usability in our Big Data platforms
  • Filling gaps in the big data eco-system for it to be fully usable by financial and other highly regulated industries
  • Presenting R&D work at commercial and academic conferences
  • Mentoring junior big data engineers

Must Have

  • Strong problem solving skills
  • Strong programming skills
  • Background in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics or equivalent
  • Experience with Scala or other functional languages
  • Experience with some of the following:
    • Big Data Technologies: Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark
    • Databases: MongoDB, ArangoDB, Postgres, DynamoDB or others
    • Application Development: Spring, Angular, OpenUI5 or equivalent
    • Streaming: Apache Kafka or equivalent
    • Cloud: AWS
    • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack
    • Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools
  • Be eager to learn new approaches and technologies

Desirable Skills

  • Be able to gain a high-level knowledge of all projects and tools developed in the Data Engineer space
  • Be able to creatively solve challenges, by out of the box thinking, while having an understanding of the required business need
  • Be able to leverage a strong engineering background to make the right choices in solution design

What We Offer in Return

  • Working with one of the coolest and most talented Big Data R&D teams in central Europe.
  • Competitive salary and bonuses
  • 25 days holidays
  • Up to 60 sick days per year (100% covered by the employer)
  • 90CZK per day meal vouchers (fully covered by the employer)
  • 3% cash employer contribution towards your pension fund
  • Membership in private medical clinic
  • Beer & pizza Thursdays
  • Multisport card & private gym in the office
  • Flexible working hours
  • Choice of Mac or Windows

Examples of What We Do

Contact

Send us a mail with your CV to BDToolingCareers@groups.absa.africa